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Name
  
Henry Bastian


Education
  
University of London

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Died
  
November 17, 1915, Chesham Bois, United Kingdom

Books
  
The Beginnings of Life: Be, The Brain as an Organ of, The Evolution of Life, The Modes of Origin of Lowest O, Early Articles - Reviews

Henry Charlton Bastian (26 April 1837 in Truro, Cornwall, England – 17 November 1915 in Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire) was an English physiologist and neurologist. Fellow of Royal Society in 1868.

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Bastian graduated in 1861 at the University of London.

He was an advocate of the doctrine of archebiosis. He believed he witnessed the spontaneous generation of living organisms out of non living matter under his microscope.

Works

  • Monograph of the Anguillulidae (1865)
  • The Beginnings of Life: being some account of the nature, modes of origin and transformation of lower organisms, I–II (1872)
  • The Brain as an Organ of Mind (1880)
  • The "muscular sense" its nature and cortical localisation (1887)
  • A Treatise on Aphasia and Other Speech Defects (1898)

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